{"id":21615,"date":"2011-11-08T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=21615"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:45:11","slug":"you-cant-outrun-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=21615","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Outrun Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This morning started like most of my mornings do. My alarm went off at 5:00 a.m. (a little later than usual),\u00a0\u00a0an hour before I was supposed to meet a friend for a easy 70 minute run, I reached for my pump and set the basal rate to 30%, and tried to steal another 15 minutes\u00a0\u00a0of sleep before I had to get up. When the second alarm went off (some of you may wonder how Jessica puts up with it \u2013 you\u2019ll have to ask her), I dragged myself out of bed and went to get ready to run.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Adam has <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/michael\/blogs\/exercise-blogs\/the-perfect-race\/21461\/\">still not come to terms with being weaned<\/a> and for the last couple weeks we have fallen asleep later than usual, but before him. So this morning when I got up, I was far from awake.\u00a0\u00a0I did the usual things, coffee, clothes, email and check my blood sugar. It was\u00a0<strong>167.<\/strong>\u00a0This was a bit higher than I wanted but 40 minutes after lowering my basal rate, it was fine. I punched the numbers into my pump and without thinking, pressed ACT \u00a0again and again and again and again (I think it takes 4 ACTs to inject), giving myself an unnecessary bolus of 1.3 units of insulin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I was too tired to panic. I considered eating something but was scared of a blood sugar rollercoaster. So I put an extra gel in my pack and headed out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It didn\u2019t take very long for the effects of the insulin to start taking a toll on my running. My first mile was slow as usual, but then when I tried to pick up the pace, I just couldn\u2019t. I kept running feeling sluggish and heavy. Seeing that I was having a hard time, my friend asked me if I was okay, I told him about my morning mistake and said I had better stop and check. My blood sugar was\u00a0<strong>62<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We were about 2.5 mile in to the run and I really didn\u2019t want to stop, although I wasn\u2019t at all sure I could continue. I had a gel and decide to push myself for another mile to see what happened.\u00a0\u00a0A mile later I was <strong>82<\/strong>. Not high enough, but better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As my blood sugar got higher, my pace started to pick up. My non-diabetic friend, who has observed a few of these episodes, told me how amazing it was to watch me. How in a matter of minutes I went from running well to not being able to move and then a few minutes later coming back to life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I agreed with him about the process but explained that there is a price and that a low like I had just had would cost me a marathon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I try to not think of myself as a handicapped runner. When I compare my pace and my race times to the people I run with I don\u2019t give myself extra credit for diabetes. This is who I am, and just as some people are taller, quicker, lighter, I am diabetic. This is what I was given and I need to do the best with it that I can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This is how I usually think of my diabetes, not only when it comes to running. But today I felt differently. I pushed myself and ran eight miles. But when I got home and thought about what had just happened, with the whole <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/jessica-apple\/blogs\/type-1-blogs\/this-diabetes-awareness-month-tell-the-world-you-arent-equal\/21428\/\">JDRF 1 in 20<\/a> thing in the background, I thought of how it wasn\u2019t just another obstacle, like a cramped leg, it was actually dangerous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today I caught myself at <strong>62<\/strong>. It could have been lower, and in the past it has been.\u00a0Being aware and understanding the danger involved with using insulin is important because, unlike a cramped leg which can be painful, dropping blood sugar needs immediate attention.\u00a0\u00a0Untreated, it could make me <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/jessica-apple\/blogs\/type-1-blogs\/this-diabetes-awareness-month-tell-the-world-you-arent-equal\/21428\/\">1 in 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>You Can&#039;t Outrun Diabetes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Being aware and understanding the danger involved with using insulin is important, dropping blood sugar needs immediate attention. 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